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“I doubt anyone will ever read my diaries, but I feel as if I have some ‘proof’ that I lived the life I am living,” Perry said. And the novelist John Sundman told me, “The benefit of keeping a diary is that it helps me figure out what the hell I’m doing with my time on earth.”

The way Scapple works is you double-click anywhere on a document and start writing. This can be something simple like the name of a character, or something longer, like a chapter's opening paragraph. Or it can be a note that has to do with anything your mind can think of and needs to get down quickly.

Give away review copies

You should give away “free” copies to anyone who’s likely to give you a review. Publishers are happy to give away review copies, and if you’re a self-publisher, you’re a publisher.

Reviews are solid GOLD on Amazon.

You should be more than ready to give away 200 copies of your ebook in exchange for reviews. However — this is important — you need to form relationships with potential reviewers first. This takes time.

But something about that book stuck with me that I can’t explain. I think it was a five year journal and it might have been something about being able to see things from one year to the next within the same book- a comparison of sorts, because not long after, I found myself at Blick (on Sept. 14th 2005 to be exact) standing in front of a display of black notebooks. Sitting in my car and taking the plastic off of the book, what I didn’t know then was that my entire world was forever changed in that moment – the moment I’d become a writer.

Online, I read about a North American bed bug explosion, found some helpful tips, and potential interviewees. So I started querying, spinning the idea this way and that for different publications. All told, my knee-jerk fears morphed into three solid assignments.

This directory contains pre-configured custom actions to extend Drafts beyond the actions that come preinstalled with the app. If you have Drafts, browse this directory on your iOS device – when you find an action that interests you, tap the "Install" link and it will be installed in your local version Drafts.

I adore Evernote. It's open everyday -- my own personal repository of everything.

It keeps track of all my writing for me. The first note I create every morning is my Daily Log, so that I can track what I do. (I'm a Gemini, with a real butterfly mind. :-))

All my ebook data, client interactions, and class materials end up in Evernote.

When I go out my phone's always with me, so I snap images and chat voice notes right into Evernote.

Last week, Evernote on my Mac stopped syncing. A message to Tech Support fixed the problem 24 hours later. I didn't lose a scrap of data. I started using Evernote heavily over a year ago when two hard drives AND two backups failed. That shouldn't have been possible; it happened anyway.

The other problem with the poignant and ubiquitous "Am I good?" question is the obvious response, "Good to whom?" When a new comedy is previewed before a focus group, it's predicted that the film will be an epic hit if 30 percent of the focus group thinks it's funny. 30 percent! When I look up on Amazon the customer reviews of books I personally might take a bullet for, I find many one-star reviews and comments like, "This book isn't worth the paper it was printed on."

I looked at Nora Roberts’ publishing schedule for 2013, and she will have five new titles this year, all of which are probably a maximum of 100,000 words. That’s still half a million words per year in print, not counting how much she wrote on the side or blogged or did in anticipation of future projects.

Warm up: You Know More Than You Think You Do

Before you start writing, pre-write. Get a timer, and free write on your topic for five minutes. This warms you up. Every performer warms up, and you’re a performer, much like an athlete, or an entertainer.

Your warmups give you confidence, and you’ll discover that you know much more than you think you do.

Goodreads WANTS you to use their site for promotion—how cool is that? They have a specific program designed to help authors reach their target audience. If you are an author with either a traditionally published or self-published book, you can register on Goodreads with a special “Author” account.